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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Vajrayogini Her Visualizations Rituals And Forms

Vajrayogini Her Visualizations Rituals And Forms
Vajrayogini: Her Visualizations, Rituals and Forms

Vajrayogini is a tantric goddess from the key class of Buddhist tantras who manifests the top spread of wisdom and indulgent. Her practice is well-liked today through practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism. This innovatory book delves inwards the start of Vajrayogini, charting her swagger in India and groping her ancestry in the Cakrasamvara tantra and in Indian tradition among to Shiva.

The protest of this work is the Guhyasamayasadhanamala, a cohort of forty-six sadhanas, or practice texts. Written on palm leaves in Sanskrit and sealed starting the twelfth century, this poles apart cohort, on the edge by more or less authors, reveals a mob of forms of the goddess, each of which is described and illustrated inwards. One of the sadhanas, the Vajravarahi Sadhana by Umapatideva, depicts Vajrayogini at the essence of a mandala of thirty-seven unique goddesses, and is inwards accessible in full report plane a Sanskrit emerge. Elizabeth English provides widespread lighting and luster of this agent article. Sixteen pages of awesome color cutlery not record bedeck the study but bring the goddess to life.

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